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Samson & Delilah Revisited

Author(s) -

Jacinta Bailey

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

new emerging scholars in australian indigenous studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2208-1232

DOI - 10.5130/nesais.v2i1.1476

Subject(s) - pride , romance , government (linguistics) , relevance (law) , consciousness , resilience (materials science) , psychological resilience , sociology , history , psychoanalysis , political science , gender studies , psychology , philosophy , social psychology , law , epistemology , physics , linguistics , thermodynamics

Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah (2009) is an unnerving and brutal portrayal of a rural Australian reality; one that we can no longer simply ignore. Amidst the governments failing targets to ‘close the gap’ for Aboriginal Australians, Thornton’s 2009 film has a newfangled relevance within public consciousness. Samson and Delilah is much more than an adolescent romance; it is a stark contrast of Australian pride and failures, a bleak and truthful demonstration of where systematic government failure has led, and, a simultaneous celebration of the survival and resilience of the Aboriginal peoples.

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